CaptainEd
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Kradec, here’s my argument:
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my answer:
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Question about #13, which sounds to me like a conflict. should it read “ nothing is south of the one black rook, which is on the edge”? or should it read “ nothing is south of the white rook that is on the edge” or even “one of the white rooks is on the edge, and has nothing south of it”? for that matter, should it name a different piece than white rook?
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I think not: please check my counting
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Plasmid, In what sense is this not a total solution?
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I question whether the information given about a figure is sufficient to uniquely determine the number of included squares:
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While this doesn’t answer the question with randomly placed 1s, I think it does give an upper bound to the number of columns that can be removed.
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Much more satisfying, thank you!
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Scratching the surface...
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Here’s one solution
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Oooh, sounds like you’ve nailed it, plainglazed.
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Ok here’s a different layout:
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Here's a different rectangle that may work: Pennies and Rectangle.pdf
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I appreciate TSLFs careful language.
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weighing puzzle 12 balls of equal size and weight except for 1
CaptainEd replied to Donald Cartmill's question in New Logic/Math Puzzles
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Dang! I guess I was using fuzzy logic.
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That’s my issue, for sure.
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Nice, Bonanova! Definitely not the obvious answer.
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Rocdocmac, I found it to be interesting, and I felt I learned something while attempting to solve it. Also I was impressed at the originality of the problem. Thanks! Thalia, thanks for showing us that I wasn’t crazy!
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After elimination of columns, do the row totals all still have to be equal (although maybe equal to 6 or 5?)
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I’m sad that I don’t get it yet, maybe I don’t know what “circumference” means...
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Nice puzzle, Rocdocmac, I think the desired answer is
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Plainglazed, you asked perfectly clearly. I wish I had done such a clear job of answering as bonanova did. Thanks for the fun puzzle!
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Ooh, now I see what you mean. Much different problem. Sorry
